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Friday SNPpets

This week’s SNPpets explore the past and the future. There’s the effect of climate on human population movements. And a correction to another ancestry paper. We have retro bioinformatics hardware. The creator of the ribbon protein diagrams appears. Top stories from last year, and from this year (so far). And Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Anne Wojcicki on a “future without disease” (oh, please–but that was the headline writer’s fault, the interview isn’t that pollyanna-ish). There’s also the future of genetic discrimination and GINA. And future disease outbreak tools. Have a look.

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…